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Old 11-19-2002
Ok if you use fdisk /mbr as stated in some of the above posts then YES it will WIPE your master boot record. Then after running the fdisk /mbr then you reboot your computer it'll then load into windows 2000. From there go into the disk admin tools and then delete the partitions with Linux on then.

I've never know the fdisk /mbr to make it never to be able to boot a system after-wards if it has Windows and Linux on them. All it'll do it delete the master boot record (well reset it anyway). Thus leaving Linux out of the picture and windows then well boot the next time you reboot.

There should be no problems with it. The reason I say no problems is because anything can happen when working on computers! I've never had a problem with using fdisk /mbr and never heard of anyone having problems with it so far.

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liloconfig

LILOCONFIG(8)						     liloconfig documentation						     LILOCONFIG(8)

NAME

       liloconfig - create new lilo.conf file (with diskid and uuid)

SYNOPSIS

       liloconfig [-h] [-v] [-f] [lilo.conf]

DESCRIPTION

       liloconfig is an simple program for creating a new lilo.conf file.  After creating the new configuration file you must execute
       '/sbin/lilo'.

       liloconfig use the lilo.example.conf file as template. In the final lilo.conf file you find many useful comments for custom changes.

OPTIONS

       -h  Print a brief help.

       -v  Print verbose messages.

       -f  Force overriding existing lilo.conf.

EXAMPLES

       Lines in the configuration file /etc/lilo.conf:

	 ### LILO global section ###

	 #large-memory
	 lba32
	 boot = /dev/sda
	 map = /boot/map
	 install = menu
	 menu-scheme = Wb:Yr:Wb:Wb
	 prompt
	 timeout = 100
	 vga = normal
	 #default = Linux

	 ### LILO per-image section ###

	 #boot = /dev/sda
	 boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SV1604N_S01FJ10X999999

	 image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5book-686
	     label = "Linux"
	     #root = /dev/sda1
	     root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
	     read-only
	 #   restricted
	 #   alias = 1
	 #   optional
	     initrd = /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5book-686

	 image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
	     label = "Linux Old"
	     #root = /dev/sda1
	     root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
	     read-only
	 #   restricted
	 #   alias = 2
	 #   optional
	     initrd = /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
       Copyright (C) 2011 Joachim Wiedorn

       This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

AUTHOR

       lilconfig was written by Joachim Wiedorn.

       This manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian at joonet.de> for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       lilo(8), update-lilo(8), lilo-uuid-diskid(8)

23.1								    2011-03-20							     LILOCONFIG(8)